That was not a typo - I got it from Coenosium Gardens which has it listed as 'Von Bemmel'. Oh well, I'll change it to 'Van Bemmel' then. Thanks.

Alex

'Van Bemmel' indeed. I too purchased my plant from Coenosium Gardens, but I did some investigating and found 'Van Bemmel' to be the proper name.
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-Sam

Also 'Van Bemmel' is not it's correct name, it is 'Van Bemmel's Dwarf' which was found in 1990 by Mr. van Bemmel from the Netherlands.

"Von" is German for "from"
"Van" is Dutch for "from"

'Van Bemmel's Dwarf' - noted and changed again, thanks.

Yours looks great, Sam, and even appears to be putting out a leader. This plant seems to grow faster than I was lead to believe. Here's how CG describes it: "This miniature ball grows almost as slowly as 'Wichtel' and is also difficult to propagate because the cuttings are so tiny. It grows about 1/4" per year."

Clement, I love your 'Kitzbuhler Alpenhexe'. It looks like a more compact version of 'Hillside Upright'. I gather from the name that it's not available in the US.

Alex

Alex, I too was surprised by its rapid growth; however, some newly-grafted conifers grow quickly for the first few years and slow after they are established. Maybe someone can provide more feedback if this is true..

-Sam

Picea abies 'Silberkissen'

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Picea abies 'Kellerman's Blue Cameo'
All blue gone from heat and watering and watering during heat and...

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tj

Hi, WB from our garden

Picea abies Mauthernalm
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Picea abies Skalsky
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Picea abies Dumpy
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Picea abies Botanicka zahrada Liberec
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Nice stuff, everyone.

'Anita's Golden Cloak' (a new cultivar brought about by Bob Fincham's cross between 'Gold Drift' and 'Acrocona' and named by Dave (Glacier's End) in honor of his wife Anita)
You follow all that? ;-)
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-Sam

Another one of Bob Fincham's golden seedlings resulting from the cross between Picea abies 'Gold Drift' and 'Acrocona':
Picea abies 'Amber Flickers' (This special cultivar was never widely available for sale. It was the last one left to purchase at Coenosium Gardens, and I love the intense golden color that seems akin to the color "amber"--a very fitting name)
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-Sam

That 'Anita's Golden Cloak' is going to have nice form!

'Wingle's Weeper'
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I figure this is the time and the thread to show a picture of the original.
Picea abies 'Anita's Golden Cloak'
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Here are a couple other older examples of some old favorite cultivars. I purchased both from Coenosium Gardens about 10 years ago. I consider them both to be important plants for the conifer collector
Picea abies 'Clanbrassiliana.' The first named conifer cultivar.
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Picea abies 'Dumpy'
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~Dave

A few of my favorite P. abies:

Picea abies 'Tufty': highly unusual because of its extremely short needles
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Picea abies 'Will's Zwerg': perfect form
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Picea abies 'Gold Strike': I don't know much about this one. At first I thought it was pendulous, but it's turning out to be more upright. It's smaller in every way than 'Gold Drift' but with just as much color.
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Picea abies 'Perry's Gold': Despite it being in the 90's for most of the summer and in mostly sunny conditions, those branches on the left are still gold. What's up with that?
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Matt

I like those too, Matt. You have a particularly nice specimen of 'Will's Zwerg'!

Yet another of Bob Fincham's golden seedling from the cross between 'Acrocona' and 'Gold Drift':
Picea abies 'Honey Pot' (Coenosium Gardens, of course; picture from early June)
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-Sam

I'd agree on that WZ. Mine is not even worth showing!

Will, please show us a pic of your WZ, may be I can give you some good advice...

Here's an older Picea abies 'Will's Zwerg' growing at my friend's house:

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Matt, both are very nice 'Will's Zwerg' aka 'Obergaertner Bruns'.
The thing with this cultivar is that it need to be trained with only one leader which is situated in the centre of the plant.
Because of mass production a lot of ugly specimens will come into the trade and that's why I think Will do have one he's ashamed for...then, why did he buy it?

Picea abies 'Dundanga'.

Ir�"na

Picea abies 'Cruenta' - this spring, on pot.

Ireena

I took this foto at a friends nursery on 6-16-2012
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Unfortunately I lost the label, so NN

Ireena, that's avery nice 'Dunganga', looking to it's yearly growth it seems to be pretty old.
The 'Cruenta' is also a beauty, unfortunately it isn't red all year...

Al, you're showing us a Picea orientalis 'Skylands' which doesn't belong to this topic as all specimens showing here are Picea abies cultivars...
May be you can also show it at the Picea orientalis Photo Gallery?
Thanks for showing us that very nice tree!

Rispetto, your one without a name looks like a 'Faehndrig' or 'Little Gem' to me...

Ireena, where is that picture from? If its your place, you are due for many more pics!

Edwin, I had to laugh at this message:
Because of mass production a lot of ugly specimens will come into the trade and that's why I think Will do have one he's ashamed for...then, why did he buy it?

I wish I wasn't so picky but this is one that was purchased mail order. Finally found a couple nurseries I can rely on but previously I'd say half of what I purchased via mail order where duds.

A not so gold 'Gold Drift'. I do like its crawling habit, I intend to grow it like this. Although I could change my mind with that leader material to the right.

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Edwin - you're GREAT! Thank you so much. It is Faehndrig!

Picea abies 'Will's Zwerg' in a temporary location.

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Severn, that's a fast growing and open specimen, it looks like it's grafted...

Another pic Edwin, it's going to be used as a screen so fast growing is ok with me. No visible graft but is was cheap and is mass produced general big store stock.

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Then it must be the super soil where it is growing in... :0)

Ireena, the 'Dundanga' is nice. And the conifer forest backdrop looks great!

'Gold Dust' (thin foliage frosted with gold)
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'Tufty' (minuscule green needles that lengthen towards the branch tips)
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-Sam

Great photos!

Picea abies 'ênversa'
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Picea abies 'Push'
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Picea abies Push - spring foliage
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Picea abies 'Luua Pearl'
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Picea abies 'Little Gem'
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Picea abies 'Formanek'
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Picea abies 'Nidiformis' - left top side
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Picea abies ''Frohburg'
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Ireena

Love that 'Luua Pearl'!

Although not as beautiful as all other trees posted here (yet!), I wanted to post pictures of my Norway Spruces too.
I extracted the seeds from cones of regular forest Norway Spruces, so no special cultivars either.

Here they are; about 5 months old:
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Picea abies, Nidiformis' AKA Bird's nest Spruce. Real common here.
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Picea abies Tompa with Picea abies Pendula and Sedum Angelina
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Picea abies Formanek a slow refined weeper

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Picea abies Pusch

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Picea abies Virgata

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Picea abies Weeping Blue

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John, thanks for showing us your nice pics!
Unfortunately your 'Virgata' is in reality a 'Cranstonii'.
Most of the times the 'Virgata' in the U.S. is wrongly named...

Hi Edwin,

I'm trying to learn the distinction between 'Virgata' and 'Cranstonii.'

Here is a link to the cultivar that Bob Fincham is selling as 'Virgata' through Coenosium Gardens. Is this the right one?

~Dave

Here is a link that might be useful:

Dave, yes, Bob is showing a true 'Virgata'.
It's very easy to see the main differences by it's upper side branches.
The one's on a 'Virgata' are horizontal.
The one's on a 'Cranstonii' are curved.
Also the branch structures at older specimens are differend...

Some old Picea abies from Kalsnava arboretum.
I'm not sure about the names that I do not want to mislead people.

Enjoy!:)

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I think - 'Minutifolia'....
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Ireena

What a variety of shapes and forms, Ireena!
'Minutifolia' reminds me of Picea orientalis. Very fascinating.
Thanks for sharing.

-Sam

Awesome photos everyone! Enjoyed going through this again with the old and new photos.

Picea abies 'Juminda', Estonia
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Picea abies 'Hiiumaa', 45 years, Estonia
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Ireena

Ireena, let me help you to name your pics:
#1 Picea abies 'Ohlendorffii'
#2 Picea abies 'Rothenhaus'
#3 Picea abies 'Cranstonii'
#4 Picea abies 'Pachyphylla'
#5 Picea abies 'Reflexa' (staked for a while)
#6 Picea abies 'Phylicoides'
#7 Picea obovata 'Aurea' (?)

About the first I think to Picea abies "Barry"
Clement

Clement, can you also tell us why you think that?
It's 'Barryi' instead of 'Barry'...

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I was thinking Irena's #1 is an older Picea abies 'Mucronata'.

tj